Soliman, Hashish & Partners

Managing Partners: Frederic Soliman, Mohamed Hashish

Number of Partners: 2

Number of other fee-earners: 22

Firm Overview:

SHP is a full-service corporate law firm that is recognized internationally as one of the leading financial and corporate law firms in Egypt by IFLR 1000, Chambers and Legal 500.

SHP works exclusively with well-structured multinational clients and focuses on Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Finance, Energy & Electricity, Construction, Infrastructure, Public Procurement, Telecom, Media and Technology (“TMT”), Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”), Dispute Resolution and Employment.

SHP acted/continues to act as local legal counsel to private and public sector entities including, inter alia, governments, NGOs and leading multinational companies working mainly in the sectors of Agriculture, Banking & Finance, Cement, Consultancy, Diplomatic Services, Energy & Electricity, Food, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Steel, TMT, Tourism, Transport and Water Treatment.

SHP provides exceptional legal services and adopts a creative, high-quality and business-minded approach to all of its assignments and continues to develop close relationships with most of the leading law firms across the world in order to provide clients with innovative and pragmatic solutions to the most complex legal problems.

SHP’s clientele includes over four hundred and fifty (450) leading multinational clients and the firm maintains a strong relationship with decision-makers in both the public and private sectors, which are indispensable to the effective representation and protection of clients’ interest.

SHP is proud of being appointed to represent the world’s leading multinational entities in Egypt’s largest mega-projects, including for example the following projects:

• Acting as legal counsel to Ion Beam Applications with respect to the implementation of Egypt’s first ever proton beam therapy centre at Children's Cancer Hospital Foundation in Egypt.
• Acted as local legal counsel to Arizona State University with respect to a mega higher education project with the Government of Egypt for the purpose of offering dual degree programmes at Galala University.
• Acted as legal counsel to FOTON Motors with respect to a joint venture project with the Government of Egypt for construction of Egypt’s first ever plant for manufacturing electric buses.
• Advised General Electric on the construction of solar power plants in BenBan, Aswan as well as its collaboration with the Egyptian Government a major decarbonization project.
• Acting as legal counsel to Wabtec Inc. with respect to supplying of 100 diesel electric locomotives to the Egyptian National Railways.
• Advising a confidential client on its participation in El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant in Egypt.
• Advised L3 Technologies on supplying C3ISR systems to the Government of Egypt.
• Acted as legal counsel to a confidential leading financial institution client with respect to a EUR 1 billion Credit Facilities Agreement that was granted to the Egyptian National Railways for the purpose of developing the national railways in Egypt.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Finance, Energy & Electricity, Construction, Infrastructure, Public Procurement, Telecom, Media and Technology (“TMT”), Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”), Dispute Resolution and Employment